Digital Antique Books

Jewelry History Brought Alive

Ganoksin proudly announces a project to digitize more than 40 complete rare antique metalsmithing books.  They will be available as searchable eBook pdfs for a minimal fee which will go to support the Ganoksin Project..

This project is about revealing their ancient wisdom to the modern metalsmithing community. This is a partnership project between The Ganoksin project and Charles Lewton-Brain.

Over the last three decades we have acquired over 40 rare historical Metalsmithing books that we will make available to jewelers, goldsmiths and the metalsmithing community.

These books cover special techniques in depth like chasing, repousse, engraving, niello making, Japanese chiseling, soldering, construction, patination and metal coloring, silversmithing and more.  There are many recipes for alloys and metal surface treatments.

The manuscripts will be gradually published in a digital format over the coming months.

For the first time in history, these ancient metal tricks and recipes will be made available to the contemporary community of curious artists and metalsmiths. This information will allow the reader to apply the simple and ingenious procedures used by the jewelers of the past, long dead masters of the art of metalsmithing. Many of the tricks and recipes described will save the maker money, as older approaches can sometimes replace modern tools.

We invite you to own the entire collection of manuscripts, and benefit from the ancient wisdom that we are presenting., while supporting the Ganoksin Project.

Each pdf is a full digital book of searchable text and images, with an easy access through an interactive table of contents. The cost STARTS at 1.35 US$ per eBook for a single user license which allows you to install, read and print the material on a single computer.